Grass Snake Identification & Sightings

Hi Cressy
Welcome to the forums .

I'm glad you managed to see a grassy in your garden, that's excellent news

I've been into reptiles since I was very young , and now at age 41 I can honestly say I still get very excited when I see a snake.

To answer your question, Our reptiles are becoming rarer and they're definitely not as easy to see as when I was young .
Also, you may not often see snakes because you're not that familiar with them . Once you start looking in the right places you'll find that your eye becomes trained to spotting them .

Thanks for telling us about your grass snake , hope to speak to you again here
Alan

David,

I think most of the members would agree with me when I say, there seems to be a reduction in frog spawn everywhere this year, not only your pond......Come to that there seems to be a reduction in Grass snake numbers as well, so i think you're very lucky to have one visiting on a regular basis. like I said to ruth, you could get some small carp to stock the pond if you want to keep the grassie interested. If i were you, I'd invest in one of those small hides/tents, set it up one night so that you can see the pond clearly and wait for a sunny morning. You have the ideal opprotunity to grab a photo of a grass snake swallowing a small fish.....It would be great if you could log it on here afterwards so that we can all see!

Cheers Robert

Ruth, glad the frog got away. Much rather a few carp became lunch....especially because of the amount of carp ponds around now and the fact that they devour all the frog and toad spawn!

Good one Ruth!

Have you got frogs/toads in your pond? If NOT, how about buying a few small common carp to keep the snake ineterested! (lol, I know I'll get shouted at for that one)

Spotted this one in our pond on 03 April 05, it's much bigger than the one we found in our garden in August 04

Ruth